Mongolian media guests visiting the Ordos EnGeBei desert science museum, Inner Mongolia. [Photo provided to China Daily]

A Mongolian press delegation, consisting of 47 members and led by a spokesman for Mongolia's foreign ministry, paid a week-long visit to China, May 31 to June 6, focusing on green development.

In August 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping promised to "invite 250 Mongolian media people to China in the following five years" on his visit to Mongolia, which led to a Mongolian delegation's visit to China in 2015.

By invitation of the State Council Information Office, this is the Mongolian media's second tour to China. They visited research institutes, industrial parks, ecological zones and environmental protection companies in Beijing, Tianjin and Inner Mongolia, all representative of China's green development, to see the country's programs and achievements in resource conservation, environmental protection and low-carbon development.

During their stay in Inner Mongolia, the guests went to the Ordos EnGeBei ecological demonstration area, Xinxing Heavy Industries Inner Mongolia energy investment Co, the Baotou environment supervision dispatch and command center, the city plan exhibition hall, and the Hohhot Daqing mountain ecological treatment and protection site.

As Mongolia and Inner Mongolia share similarities of geography and climate, some of Inner Mongolia's experiences can be models and examples, said the delegation leader, adding that they will increase the Mongolian people's awareness of China's achievements in green development through public broadcasting.

Green development is one of the common objectives of China and Mongolia, which have being cooperating in clean energy, water resources management, air quality control and ecological conservation.